Lucie Matthews-Jones
@luciejones83.bsky.social
Victorian historian at a UK post-92. Usually lost in the past & admin. Slowly writing book. Looks at home, class & gender. Interested in pedagogy, & disability in higher education. Dyslexic/dyspraxic. Her/she. Sharing her home office with 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
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“Among the fallen beech leaves”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“Among the fallen beech leaves”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
🍂Crisp autumn park walks are the best park walks 🍁🍂
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🍂Crisp autumn park walks are the best park walks 🍁🍂
I’ve just been invited to give my first keynote paper. So I did what this email truly deserved I squealed at my desk and wrote my acceptance reply with a big smile on my face and that’s such a nice way to start my Friday…
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I’ve just been invited to give my first keynote paper. So I did what this email truly deserved I squealed at my desk and wrote my acceptance reply with a big smile on my face and that’s such a nice way to start my Friday…
When you’ve been away for a few days and your feline forever best friend wants to make sure that you haven’t forgotten them and that they are available for head scratches and chin rubs… #proofofcat
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
When you’ve been away for a few days and your feline forever best friend wants to make sure that you haven’t forgotten them and that they are available for head scratches and chin rubs… #proofofcat
How is the digital creative? Check out Jamie Wood’s article ‘Creativity&Historical Inquiry in Digital Spaces’. It’s the penultimate early view article for @cathfeely.bsky.social &my special issue on creative history for @hisjournalha.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
How is the digital creative? Check out Jamie Wood’s article ‘Creativity&Historical Inquiry in Digital Spaces’. It’s the penultimate early view article for @cathfeely.bsky.social &my special issue on creative history for @hisjournalha.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Not sure if I’m mad or a fool but my request to bring back an exam for my third year module Victorian Cities has been signed off by all. Will anyone sign up for my module now? Will my bring your own-primary-sources-and-notes to the exam work? Who knows, everything rests with the exam gods now.
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Not sure if I’m mad or a fool but my request to bring back an exam for my third year module Victorian Cities has been signed off by all. Will anyone sign up for my module now? Will my bring your own-primary-sources-and-notes to the exam work? Who knows, everything rests with the exam gods now.
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We've teamed up with @amfoster.bsky.social's brilliant 'Accessible Pasts, Equitable Future' project for a TWO day event (17-18 Nov) on archives, accessibility, neurodivergence and disability with some fantastic speakers.
Registration link in previous tweet, programme below.
Registration link in previous tweet, programme below.
Accessing Archives and Collections Symposium - Programme
Last updated 16.10.25 - please check back as we continue to confirm speakers! Register here by 13th November (24th October if you require BSL interpretation) Accessing Archives and Collection Sympos...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We've teamed up with @amfoster.bsky.social's brilliant 'Accessible Pasts, Equitable Future' project for a TWO day event (17-18 Nov) on archives, accessibility, neurodivergence and disability with some fantastic speakers.
Registration link in previous tweet, programme below.
Registration link in previous tweet, programme below.
Today I visited the stunning Tyntesfield in Somerset, a @nationaltrust.org.uk house financed by Peruvian bird poo. Remodelled in 1864 it is a striking gothic building. Real credit to the thought provoking exhib on how William Gibbs got his money & the human &environmental effects of the guano trade
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today I visited the stunning Tyntesfield in Somerset, a @nationaltrust.org.uk house financed by Peruvian bird poo. Remodelled in 1864 it is a striking gothic building. Real credit to the thought provoking exhib on how William Gibbs got his money & the human &environmental effects of the guano trade
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It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
victorianist.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
victorianist.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
@emvchung.bsky.social lovely to see your research in the Guardian. I’m even more pleased to see there’s an article too! Congrats!
October 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
@emvchung.bsky.social lovely to see your research in the Guardian. I’m even more pleased to see there’s an article too! Congrats!
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Behind the sensationalised headline, there’s some excellent and fascinating research here.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Behind the sensationalised headline, there’s some excellent and fascinating research here.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
I am today’s workplace hero because it was I who sent an email to nearly 950 recipients suggesting that we start using the BCC line to avoid ‘reply alls’. It was gallantly done and much appreciated by those that send me emails and stopped me in the corridor!
a bunch of colorful squares are flying in the air
ALT: a bunch of colorful squares are flying in the air
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I am today’s workplace hero because it was I who sent an email to nearly 950 recipients suggesting that we start using the BCC line to avoid ‘reply alls’. It was gallantly done and much appreciated by those that send me emails and stopped me in the corridor!
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#OtD 19 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt decided to illegally deport over 1000 Chinese seamen who lived in Liverpool. Even men married to British women were expelled, along with some of their wives who were then stripped of British citizenship stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9142...
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#OtD 19 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt decided to illegally deport over 1000 Chinese seamen who lived in Liverpool. Even men married to British women were expelled, along with some of their wives who were then stripped of British citizenship stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9142...
I’ve just been sent a certification for presenting and attending a conference. Finally, I have a reason to populate my
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve just been sent a certification for presenting and attending a conference. Finally, I have a reason to populate my
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
I used to feel uncomfortable with silence in the classroom, but I strangely enjoy them when I ask students to be creative because they suggest real concentration. Today this happened when they made blackout poetry from Mona Caird’s Morality of Marriage. This is a fab exercise for close reading.
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I used to feel uncomfortable with silence in the classroom, but I strangely enjoy them when I ask students to be creative because they suggest real concentration. Today this happened when they made blackout poetry from Mona Caird’s Morality of Marriage. This is a fab exercise for close reading.
Is there any greater phrase for a lecturer to hear than ‘I love this module. It’s my favourite’? And, yes, I did nearly burst with joy…
a cartoon dog is dancing on a red background .
ALT: a cartoon dog is dancing on a red background .
media.tenor.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Is there any greater phrase for a lecturer to hear than ‘I love this module. It’s my favourite’? And, yes, I did nearly burst with joy…
My cat Bluebell is writing a detailed and through treatise on the principle of being an office based based cat. #proofofcat
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My cat Bluebell is writing a detailed and through treatise on the principle of being an office based based cat. #proofofcat
We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…
I was up early today to virtually join the History Education, Diversity, and Inclusion conf. I had a blast giving my paper on Creativity in the history classroom. Like most academics in week 4 I was hugging a lemsip. I loved Sarah Holland & @amfoster.bsky.social’s papers about disability inclusion!🙌🏻
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I was up early today to virtually join the History Education, Diversity, and Inclusion conf. I had a blast giving my paper on Creativity in the history classroom. Like most academics in week 4 I was hugging a lemsip. I loved Sarah Holland & @amfoster.bsky.social’s papers about disability inclusion!🙌🏻
Today I arrived in class to students having an animated convo about this week’s primary source reading. They seemed shocked by Jack’s mother’s behaviour to Beatie. It kicked started a lovely seminar on courtship&love. It really cemented a feeling I have right now that post-pandemic teaching is back.
October 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today I arrived in class to students having an animated convo about this week’s primary source reading. They seemed shocked by Jack’s mother’s behaviour to Beatie. It kicked started a lovely seminar on courtship&love. It really cemented a feeling I have right now that post-pandemic teaching is back.
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'A man smoking a pipe overlooking the Thames with the Monument and St. Magnus Martyr beyond' (1911) by Savage W Cooper
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
October 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
'A man smoking a pipe overlooking the Thames with the Monument and St. Magnus Martyr beyond' (1911) by Savage W Cooper
(Private collection)
(Private collection)
I am absolutely thrilled that Karin Meredith’s dissertation on c19th beauty culture in advertisements has been hightly commended by @womenshistnet.bsky.social. It was perhaps the best diss I’ve ever had the delight to supervise! I’m so proud of her &with @ljmuhistory.bsky.social send hearty congrats
Highly Commended: Karin Meredith
"Marketing Beauty, Maintaining Power: Gender, Class and Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"
An insightful exploration of the beauty industry through periodicals, touching on whiteness, femininity, and moral discourse.
"Marketing Beauty, Maintaining Power: Gender, Class and Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"
An insightful exploration of the beauty industry through periodicals, touching on whiteness, femininity, and moral discourse.
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I am absolutely thrilled that Karin Meredith’s dissertation on c19th beauty culture in advertisements has been hightly commended by @womenshistnet.bsky.social. It was perhaps the best diss I’ve ever had the delight to supervise! I’m so proud of her &with @ljmuhistory.bsky.social send hearty congrats
Part 1 of McEwan’s What we can know is amazing. It follows its protagonist’s attempts to find a lost 2014 poem. Set in 2119 when much of Britain is submerged under water, it feels like a love letter to the quirks & pitfalls of historical researcher esp know that the bodleian is on top of Snowdonia
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Part 1 of McEwan’s What we can know is amazing. It follows its protagonist’s attempts to find a lost 2014 poem. Set in 2119 when much of Britain is submerged under water, it feels like a love letter to the quirks & pitfalls of historical researcher esp know that the bodleian is on top of Snowdonia
Today I headed into Liverpool’s fabric district by my uni to replenish my seminar sewing supplies 🪡 🧵 . I end up discovering the amazing Abakhan Fabrics, where I wished that I was more crafty. The whole area had some incredible street art. This was genuinely a lovely way to prep for class tomorrow.
October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today I headed into Liverpool’s fabric district by my uni to replenish my seminar sewing supplies 🪡 🧵 . I end up discovering the amazing Abakhan Fabrics, where I wished that I was more crafty. The whole area had some incredible street art. This was genuinely a lovely way to prep for class tomorrow.